Government Technical Writing
Technical writing as an instructive, descriptive, or interpretative material on technical subjects for a given audience
What is "as an Output" ?
Details of spelling, use of quotations, abbreviations, and setting of titles
What is Form?
Using unnecessary words
What is Wordiness?
Examples of Technical Literature in the Government
What are Memoranda, Circulars, Technical Reports, Letters, Minutes of the Meetings, Treaties, Subpoena, Warrant of Arrest, and Executive Summaries?
Technical writing as the process of expressing detailed knowledge in clear, concise prose
What is Process Viewpoint?
Refers to how the writer handles diction, punctuation, grammar, POV, sentence patterns, kinds of sentences, transition and etc.
What is Style?
Use of abstract nouns and adjectives, making words impersonal
What is Deadly (Deadening) Passive?
The creator of the Seven Sins of Technical Writing
Who is Morris Freedman?
Technical writing as an input to operations, as well as to problem analysis and decision making, as well as enable communication vertically and diagonally with greater effectiveness
What is "as an Organizational Communication" ?
Quality of writing which reflects the writer’s attitude toward his subject and readers
What is Tone?
Use of big pretentious words and jargons
What is Emptiness?
In technical writing as an output, what is instructive, descriptive, or interpretative material on technical subjects for a given audience called?
What is Technical Literature?
Logical togetherness of the material, having all parts of the composition hang together
What is Coherence?
In the addressee line, the difference between To and For in government Memoranda
What is To as used to an official/employee with lower rank; For as used to an official/employee with higher than or equal rank?
Elaborating the obvious, as well as not resolving points being brought up
What is Indifference?
The document issued which contain the Guidelines and Standard Formats for Correspondences and Policy Issuances
What is Department Circular No. 2021-16?
Contains information coordinated with other government agencies and plans taken from both national and abroad
What is Environmental Information?
Dependable guidance through superior knowledge, where writer knows what he is talking about, and in turn, inspires confidence on part of reader
What is Authority
Use of awkward phrases, and being lazy on making transitions
What is Bad Habits?
The three Formats for creating a Memoranda
What is Full-block, Block, and Modified Block Formats?